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The revised definition of "spouse" extends FMLA leave rights and job protections to eligible employees in a same-sex marriage or a common-law marriage entered into in a state where those statuses are legally recognized, regardless of the state in which the employee works or resides. [63]
Payors evaluate claims by verifying the patient's insurance details, medical necessity of the recommended medical management plan, and adherence to insurance policy guidelines. [4] The payor returns the claim back to the medical biller and the biller evaluates how much of the bill the patient owes, after insurance is taken out.
A Health Reimbursement Arrangement, also known as a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), [1] is a type of US employer-funded health benefit plan that reimburses employees for out-of-pocket medical expenses and, in limited cases, to pay for health insurance plan premiums.
Prior to the FMLA, the term "family" referred to a nuclear family where with two parents of opposite sex and the "mother" could bear a child. That was the only definition acknowledged by medical and economic research done before the LGBTQ rights movement. Only recently have studies caught up to a modern and more inclusive definition for a family.
Like most kinds of professional liability insurance, EPL insurance policies operate on a claims-made basis. [10] This means that policyholders can only receive insurance benefits if they are covered both at the time of the discrimination incident that triggered the claim and at the time when the claim is filed. [11]
The definition was to be expanded from "a remaining spouse, sexual cohabitant, partner, step-parent or step-child, parent-in-law or child-in-law, or an individual related by blood whose close association is an equivalent of a family relationship who was accepted by the deceased as a child of his/her family" to include "any person who had ...
Domestic partners are eligible for health care insurance coverage, can use annual leave or unpaid leave for the birth or adoption of a dependent child or to care for a domestic partner or a partner's dependents, and can make funeral arrangements for a deceased partner.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996; Other short titles: Kassebaum–Kennedy Act, Kennedy–Kassebaum Act: Long title: An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use ...